I've had success on "older" model Lenovos.....(T-410 / T-420 / T-430) but anything beyond those seems to have some issue or another. I was even able to swap the standard drive to an SD (250GB) on a T-430 and it's running g like a champ. A lot of the newer stuff is OK as long as you don't have any boutique drivers for video network or sound. YMMV. On Sep 29, 2016 9:18 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > > On 9/29/2016 5:55 PM, Michael B Allen wrote: > > It seems optical drives are gone. Do I boot the iso from USB or what's > > the procedure now? > > yup, put iso on USB, go to town. > > > Generally seeking new laptop advice. If Lenovo is not good is anyone > > using Toshiba? > > I have not much cared for Lenovo since IBM sold out to them. I've > been generally quite happy with business grade ('Latitude') Dell > laptops... my wife's got an XPS15 (running Windows) thats very nice, > gorgeous IPS 1920x1080 screen, very slim, nicely made, and her new work > laptop is a Latitude 5500-something thats also a really nice super-slim > thing, has monster battery life, and all the latest USB C and so forth, > but it too is running Windows 7 as thats what she needs for her > techwriter job (Adobe Framemaker on Linux is very poorly supported). > > > -- > john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos